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Gopher Service Altadena

Gopher Removal in Altadena, CA

If rodents like gophers are damaging your Altadena landscape and you need Gopher Service service call Rodent Guys to rescue your landscape. Our Gopher Service service in Altadena, CA is offered with pet friendly methods with well trained techs. We can be reached at 909-599-4711 to service Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties.

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A gopher control Altadena Ca . needs is from the pocket gopher that is the same thing as a gopher. A lot of damages will be to new plants because immature, un-established plus it won’t require a good deal gnawing for a gopher to destroy or feed on it. Turf can also be seriously impacted by gophers with damage from both the feeding of the lawn along with the dirt moved on top and staying on top of the lawn in which smothers it.

Giant trees can take gnawing for a little bit so not to worry. Smaller trees could very well be killed by a gopher quickly given that the roots offering the life for your tree are young. You discover certain limbs of trees or bushes start to die out as soon as gophers are damaging it. This is a result of the roots supplying life to that an area of the plant is impaired or destroyed by the gopher and no longer giving life to that part of the plant that you are raising.

How Do I Know if I need service?

Gopher mounds with exit hole

Gopher Mound

Pocket gopher burrows are almost always stuffed wth dirt like in the picture above. This helps to tell them apart from other burrowing rodents like voles. They can make 1-3 mounds every day which is why you want to get rid of gophers right away on your yard. Gopher removal (not gofer removal ) is normally done by a professional pest control company with experience with how to eradicate gophers for your yard. Always ensure they have an agriculture pest control license as required by California state law in and not merely a structural license.

Destruction and why we need Removal

Gophers consume plants, roots of trees, flowers and vegetables on your garden – if it’s a plant they most likely will eatwll consume|like} it. Most damage is to new vegetation because they are small, un-established and it does not} take much for a gopher to destroy or eat it. Lawn is also highly impacted by gophers with destruction from both the eating of the lawn and the dirt pushed on top and sitting on the turf which kills it.

Large trees can take gnawing for a while so not to panic. Smaller trees can be destroyed by a gopher right away because the roots supplying the life to the tree are undeveloped. You will notice certain branches of trees or bushes begin to dry out when gophers are attacking it. This is caused by the roots giving life to that part of the plant is damaged or killed by the gopher and no longer supplying life to that part of the tree you are growing in.

The best control methods for gopher extermination are burrow fumigants, poison, burrow blasting, Tunnel Fill, and trapping. Trapping, Tunnel Fill and baiting are options that a property owner can use with limited success. Burrow Blasting is normally operated by a company dedicated to gophers (we use a Varmint Getter for burrow blasting) because of the expense of the machine.

Burrow fumigants are very effective but are restricted materials in, only available to and used by licensed experts like us. Burrow fumigants are not the same as the flares from the hardware store which are not very effective.

Poison baits used by agriculture pest control companies are much higher concentration and effective than what is obtainable to a homeowner. The main reason to hire a gopher expert is the experience of what method to use for each situation and proper placement of fumigants and or bait for effective control of gophers.

Using water to force them out

Flooding can be effective on farms where the whole crop area is flooded and there is nowhere for a gopher to go. On your property you are going to attempt to flood the gopher with a hose down the opening. The problem is the water usually never fills up the tunnel system and the gopher simply raises his nose above the water line until you start to panic about the water bill in Altadena and shut it off.

Repellent

There are no repellents in Altadena available at the present time that have been proved to provide good Gopher Service. Several plants, such as gopher purge and cantor bean have been said to offer relief, but these claims have never been proved. If they really worked to get rid of gophers no one would be reading this site including you.

Keep gophers out of your garden using physical barriers can be effective for small projects. Any large project, such as placing fencing around the area of your backyard would be cost prohibitive. Plus this would at best only provide short-term control. At some point gophers find a way in.

Raised planter beds can be protected by attaching a 1/4 inch galvanized hardware cloth under the bed and securing it to the 2×6 wood frame before filling with soil in your yard.

Calif DFG position

When gophers are causing damage to you Altadena property, they are allowed to be removed by any legal means. Allowable methods can include gopher traps and poison bait used by the owner or tenant of the property. Any poison bait used to kill gophers must be labeld for gophers on the product label and follow the instructions carefully.

Rodent Guys Rodent Company

Rodent Guys will come out to provide Gopher Service services in Altadena using the best ways based on each situation such as fumigation. Depending on tunnel locations poison baits are used in place of fumigation of tunnels. Gopher Service is a tough job for the novice, we have a lot of experience with it.

Captured two Gophers

This is head honcho of Rodent Guys, Nick Nielsen, with 2 gophers, one caught in a gopher trap and one killed with bait. Nick and his team of Gopher Service experts will be holding trophies like these at the end of your project.

We Service Most areas in the following counties:

Los Angeles County, Ventura, San Bernardino County, Orange County and Riverside County